An intrepid grandmother, riding her bike from Townsville to Broome, picks herself up from a traumatic experience and just keeps pedalling. A young woman meets a stranger on a bus and discovers things that are lost cannot always be found. A student presents her teacher with an unusual gift helping the giver step into a new life.
This collection of 18 stories draws on Beverley Lello’s travels in Australia and overseas as well as evoking a landscape closer to her home in north-east Victoria. They weave together themes of love, loss and resilience, and at their heart is the shared hope that ‘tomorrow… there will be a tailwind.’
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The Stories
Saffron won the 2012 Country Style Short Story Competition and was published in Country Style magazine, August 2012 and Award Winning Australian Writing, Melbourne Books, 2013
Protest was published in page seventeen Issue 11, Busybird Publishing, 2014
In the Web was published in page seventeen Issue 10, Busybird Publishing, 2012
Scenes from a Disappearance was short-listed for the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Competition, 2013, and was published in Lost Boy & other stories, Margaret River Press, 2015
Stone Skeleton won the 2013 Rolf Boldrewood Literary Award (Macquarie Regional Library Dubbo) and was published in Award Winning Australian Writing, Melbourne Books, 2014
The Road Home won the 2011 Stringybark Short Story Award and was published in The Road Home and other award winning stories, Stringybark Publishing, 2011, and Award Winning Australian Writing, Melbourne Books, 2012
Writer’s Retreat won the Booranga Prize for the best short story in fourW twenty-five and was published in fourW twenty-five, fourW press, 2014
On the Roof won the 2012 Yarra Plenty Regional Library Short Story Writing Competition and was published in Write Now! Busybird Publishing, 2012
Especially to Women won the Booranga Prize for the best short story in fourW twenty-three and was published in fourW twenty-three, fourW press, 2012
Stage Love was short-listed in the 2013 Alan Marshall Short Story Award and was Commended in the Eastwood/Hills FAW Literary Competition, 2014
Sleeping Diagonally was published in fourW twenty-four, fourW press, 2013
Tailwind won the 2014 Yarra Plenty Regional Library Short Story Writing Competition and was published in Write Now! Busybird Publishing, 2014 and Award Winning Australian Writing, 2015
So Thin won the 2012 Albury City Short Story Competition and was published in Country Style magazine, January 2013
Strawberry Toes won the 2013 Eastwood/Hills FAW Short Story Competition
A Small Safe Room was published in [untitled] Issue 7, Busybird Publishing, 2016
Dancing on Grass was published in fourW twenty-three, fourW press, 2012
Seedlings (Part I) won the 2014 FAWVic Angelo B Natoli Short Story Award and was published in Award Winning Australian Writing, Melbourne Books, 2014